12 Cramfs - cram a filesystem onto a small ROM
34 cramfs is designed to be simple and small, and to compress things well.
56 It uses the zlib routines to compress a file one page at a time, and
7 allows random page access. The meta-data is not compressed, but is
8 expressed in a very terse representation to make it use much less
9 diskspace than traditional filesystems.
1011 You can't write to a cramfs filesystem (making it compressible and
12 compact also makes it _very_ hard to update on-the-fly), so you have to
13 create the disk image with the "mkcramfs" utility.
141516 Usage Notes
17 -----------
1819 File sizes are limited to less than 16MB.
2021 Maximum filesystem size is a little over 256MB. (The last file on the
22 filesystem is allowed to extend past 256MB.)
2324 Only the low 8 bits of gid are stored. The current version of
25 mkcramfs simply truncates to 8 bits, which is a potential security
26 issue.
2728 Hard links are supported, but hard linked files
29 will still have a link count of 1 in the cramfs image.
3031 Cramfs directories have no `.' or `..' entries. Directories (like
32 every other file on cramfs) always have a link count of 1. (There's
33 no need to use -noleaf in `find', btw.)
3435 No timestamps are stored in a cramfs, so these default to the epoch
36 (1970 GMT). Recently-accessed files may have updated timestamps, but
37 the update lasts only as long as the inode is cached in memory, after
38 which the timestamp reverts to 1970, i.e. moves backwards in time.
3940 Currently, cramfs must be written and read with architectures of the
41 same endianness, and can be read only by kernels with PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
42 == 4096. At least the latter of these is a bug, but it hasn't been
43 decided what the best fix is. For the moment if you have larger pages
44 you can just change the #define in mkcramfs.c, so long as you don't
45 mind the filesystem becoming unreadable to future kernels.
464748 For /usr/share/magic
49 --------------------
5051 0 ulelong 0x28cd3d45 Linux cramfs offset 0
52 >4 ulelong x size %d
53 >8 ulelong x flags 0x%x
54 >12 ulelong x future 0x%x
55 >16 string >\0 signature "%.16s"
56 >32 ulelong x fsid.crc 0x%x
57 >36 ulelong x fsid.edition %d
58 >40 ulelong x fsid.blocks %d
59 >44 ulelong x fsid.files %d
60 >48 string >\0 name "%.16s"
61 512 ulelong 0x28cd3d45 Linux cramfs offset 512
62 >516 ulelong x size %d
63 >520 ulelong x flags 0x%x
64 >524 ulelong x future 0x%x
65 >528 string >\0 signature "%.16s"
66 >544 ulelong x fsid.crc 0x%x
67 >548 ulelong x fsid.edition %d
68 >552 ulelong x fsid.blocks %d
69 >556 ulelong x fsid.files %d
70 >560 string >\0 name "%.16s"
717273 Hacker Notes
74 ------------
7576 See fs/cramfs/README for filesystem layout and implementation notes.

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